Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Management involvement tends to happen only when the ideas are "ready" to be pushed up and sometimes even that isn't necessary. Because consensus and familiar metrics are death to breakthrough.

Process 15

Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Visible senior management involvement. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. Old models don't work.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious. Establishing appropriate performance metrics and assigning attribution. Enlist project managers and ensure clear roles and responsibilities for all centre employees.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement.

Engineering 12

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. Here’s an example.

Project 8

Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

These customer experience management initiatives can be complex. To understand the work, first you need to understand an airport's business model: its real customer isn't travelers, but the airlines that rent the gates and terminals, much like a mall owner leases space to retailers.

B2B 15

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15